South Carolina · Nonprofit
MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC
MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,956,468 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ($3,130,449). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Mobile Meals of Spartanburg County Inc does
Mission
Mobile meals' mission is to glorify god by providing nutritious meals,service and fellowship to the frail and home-bound of spartanburg county who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves, and who have no one in the home to prepare it for them. This enables individuals to live independently in their homes as long as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Deliver hot nutritious meals to close to 2,268 home-bound individuals throughout spartanburg county through the use of volunteers.
$2,200,223 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,200,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.2M to $10M (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jamie Hodge
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $658k → $560k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 83% · 2019 70% · 2020 29% · 2021 58% · 2022 67% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
41% of MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC?
- MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,956,468 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ($3,130,449). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,956,468 in grants to MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC?
- SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,130,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing